Discussion (5) ¬

Thank you. Though please observe that I’ve pretty much given up on Maresh. What does the chief antagonist get? Robes? Amulets? Intricate headgear? A sweater and a pair of wool slacks. I’d might as well give him a UMass hoodie and a Bruins cap.

He’s a doofy teenage lout with an identity crisis trying to make himself seem all grownup — I swear it’s just his intrinsic character overriding you, like Anthem refusing to be a tomboy. Sure, he’s an angsty teenager with delusions of grandeur…but he’s also smart and self-aware enough to realize that he’d look ridiculous all dressed up like a Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, and not old enough not to care.

“Let lesser mortals lacking in real power try to fool others with pomp and circumstance, we who are true masters of the secret hidden knowledge of the universe need no such gaudy fripperies” (continue on apace with pompous self-puffery until espying someone, or someone’s portrait, in regalia both glam and awesomely cool, at which point mental commentary switches tto “I could SO rock that — it is both meet and proper for TEH WIZ3 to fulfill the expectations of the simple and shallow in order to lead them to Higher Truths, bring on the brocade and ostrich feathers”)